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A tablespoon of psyllium husk in water at night gives me a reliable morning for 15 calories, and is a lot cheaper than 45 calories of sickly sweet Metamucil.

A few people who this appeals to on this thread have already said that they enjoy it and look forward to keeping this or a maintenance version of it up for life. If you can't see the appeal, no problem. When people say to me "I could never do that!" I reply "no, probably not". By that I don't mean that they'd fail at it…

PS I've been following EOD for 3 months and 10kg lost easily and happily with daily tracking, major accountability, increased fitness and plenty of personal goals achieved.

When you exercise you burn calories which would have put you at an even bigger deficit. I don't mean to point out the obvious... but if you were getting too hungry when you exercised it's because your deficit was very high. The point of exercise is that it makes you stronger and you can eat more while maintaining your…

LOSE rhymes with snooze, means to be rid of something. LOOSE rhymes with caboose, means not tight. I don't want to embarrass anyone. This is a weight loss site, and this is going to come up in almost every thread.

I've been doing ADF for 3 months and I don't have asthma, but I do have an arthritis-like joint pain (ankle) which I've had to start taking anti-inflammatories for. Never heard of IF for anti-inflammatory properties - perhaps it's more lung specific?

I also have a full time job, lots of freelance on the side, and am a parent. It's hard to make meals and get time to work out, so I applaud your efforts in actually doing that. I have a few tips: * Whatever you decide your calorie goal should be, keep adjusting it with your revised weight. It will go up or down weekly or…

As you are not the OP we can safely say that if the 1200 thing works for you then "yay"... but applying your methods (which are borderline extreme and only suitable for a very sedentary person) to the OP's situation is not safe.

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They say it because it's true: you shouldn't have a heavy dinner. Overeating at dinner gives you a bad quality of sleep as your body is digesting instead of resting. Have a reasonable dinner (not too much, not too little... jeez do I need to define reasonable?) and maybe a 20-30 min walk after that.

This is why I don't weigh weekly! I weighed 190.3 on Monday morning, 195.8 Tuesday morning, and 189.4 this morning (Wednesday). Don't get hung up on the numbers - those big quick fluctuations are just water, not fat. You're doing the right things and the weight will come off. Also don't get hung up on the set backs. Work…

I used to use most of my daily calories at lunchtime, thinking that would be the most logical time to stock up on energy to last me through the day. I quickly found that going to bed hungry made me very alert. If you have a satisfying dinner a few hours before bed you might find that timing was the issue all along.

Next time you are really craving chocolate, get some vanilla essence from the pantry, open it and sniff. The smell somehow eases the craving. Sounds like BS, I know, but try it.

When people say "I would never be able to do the diet you're doing", I always reply "Yes, I don't think you could".

I absolutely agree that people are scared of hunger. Hunger comes in waves, and it often goes away completely with a drink of water. I am absolutely not advocating habitual hunger-inducing periods of complete abstinence, but if you've hit your calorie goals before dinner then how hungry can you really be with 2000 or so…

Congrats to the pinhead who reported this response as abusive.

I think many could stand to reevaluate their definition of "really hungry".

Sorry, not TDEE then... calorie goal. You think skipping meals is punishment? How bout dieting in general? Is that punishment? You need to think about caloric restriction a little more objectively. No one is being punished - reducing caloric intake is a thing you do when you want to lose weight.

Skip dinner. What's the incentive for planning better tomorrow if you're going to give yourself a pass when you hit your TDEE min-afternoon? Unless you're skipping every meal skipping meals isn't going to kill you.

MFP is cray cray. Sorry for confusement. Also hello from fellow Aussie.

People keep mentioning frozen veggies... where I live these are never cheaper than fresh vegetables. Are they cheaper in the US? ETA peas are the exception - fresh peas in the pod cost a fortune.

If you get a wifi scale you can step on and look away while the data is sent to your profile and/or apps. Hey presto - no daily tripping on the numbers but you get the charting anyway.

Yeah it's interesting to see the volume difference. I get a little cranky with it because too many people confuse excess weight as "fat which could potentially be converted into muscle", when of course this is never the case. Fat and muscle are two different things, and can (and do!) coexist within everyone's bodies. Many…

Not sure why you are referring to it, or why you couldn't post it for that matter... but here's that picture. If you want to post pictures in the future try the button which looks like this up the top of the Reply window.

Very interesting Graham! I started about the same time as you (current MFP streak 81 days) and my graph shows similar dips and spikes. You're a man after my own data fuelled heart. You have a 5.2kg head start on me, but as of today I'm 8.1kgs down. ETA that's a 2.5kg spike out of nowhere at the end there. If I was the sort…

You want to lose 17.4lb but your counter is set to 44lbs?

That may well be it, James.

What's 1lb of a stone? I can work with kgs, lbs, stone, but this one is new to me.

If you'd like to compare the adherence and maintenance stats of IF with full-time reduced calorie intake you might see if differently . It's very common to put weight back on after dieting.